A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine PB

Ibn Daud

Paperback

9781838049218

This spiritual guide to the self is a handbook of tazkiyah or ‘self-purification’. Not only does it illustrate the maladies of the human spiritual condition, it recognises the struggles and insecurities we all succumb to from time to time, and offers up the remedies.

The antidotes to our ailments are drawn from Qur’ānic verses and authentic ahādīth (Prophetic sayings), inspiring mindfulness of the Almighty Cherisher and His Beloved Prophet ﷺ. This guidebook draws on the 12th-Century works of Imam Abū Hāmid Al-Ghazālī. 

Contents

• A Continual Cycle of Self-Purification 

• How to Use this Book

1. Anger

2. Antipathy Towards Death

3. Blameworthy Modesty

4. Boasting, Arrogance & Pride

5. Displeasure with Blame or Disapproval

6. Displeasure with the Divine Decree

7. Envy

8. Extravagance

9. False Hope

10. Fantasizing

11. Fear of Poverty

12. Fraud

13. Hard-Heartedness

14. Hatred

15. Heedlessness

16. Iniquity

17. Love of the World

18. Miserliness

19. Mockery

20. Negative Feelings

21. Obliviousness to Blessings or Ingratitude

22. Ostentation or Showing Off

23. Relying on Other than Allah

24. Seeking Reputation

25. Vanity

26. Wantonness or Greed